Israeli army kills 12 Palestinians in Gaza

By Hosni Nedim and Ramzi Mahmud

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 12 Palestinians were killed on Saturday in fresh Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.

Emergency teams reached seven dead bodies and recovered four injured after the Israeli army hit a house in Al-Hawaja Street in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, a medical source told Anadolu.

Two Palestinians have lost their lives, and several others were injured due to an Israeli attack on a group of civilians in the Man'ama area near the Al-Salah Clinic in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.

Another Israeli airstrike targeted a gathering of civilians near the Jundia family’s home in the Shujayya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, killing three family members and injuring several others, the same source added.

The Israeli army bombed the al-Harash family house in Jabalia with two consecutive strikes, eyewitnesses told Anadolu.

The Israeli army claimed earlier that it had detected the launch of two rockets from northern Gaza toward the Ashkelon area in southern Israel, despite its ground offensive into the northern Palestinian enclave and a siege that has been in place for the seventh consecutive day.

Israel has continued a brutal offensive on Gaza following a cross-border incursion by the Palestinian group Hamas last October, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.

Nearly 42,200 people have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 98,300 injured, according to local health authorities.

The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the Gaza Strip amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its actions in Gaza.

*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala in Istanbul